Spectacular trove of Cambrian fossils uncovered in China

Enlarge / The level of detail in some of the fossils is astonishing. (credit: Dongjing Fu et. al.)

The first signs of complex animal life begin in the Ediacaran Period, which started more than 600 million years ago. But it’s difficult to understand how those organisms relate to the life we see around us today. Part of this issue is that those fossils are rare, as many rocks of that period appear to have been wiped off the Earth by a globe-spanning glaciation. But another problem is that the organisms we do see from this period aren’t clearly related to anything that came after them.

With the arrival of the [...]

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March 21, 2019

Nokia has sent confidential customer data to a server in China

A Nokia user sounded the alarm. HMD Global claims that it has already been resolved but Finland is investigating the possible privacy violation.

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March 21, 2019

This is what the Huawei P30 will look like

You can already find many leaked photos of Huawei’s next flagship device — the P30 and P30 Pro. The company is set to announce the new product at an event in Paris next week. So here’s what you should expect.

Reliable phone leaker Evan Blass tweeted many different photos of the new devices in three different tweets:

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— Evan Blass (@evleaks) March 20, 2019

As you can see, both devices feature three cameras on the back of the device. The notch is getting smaller and now looks like a teardrop. Compared to the P20 and P20 Pro, the fingerprint sensor is gone. It looks like Huawei [...]